Social Ministry Outreach

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota  

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is the largest, statewide non-profit social service organization in the state with over 2,200 employees who serve in 300 communities.

Community Action Council 

The Community Action Council is a nonprofit dedicated to helping families in crisis get back on their feet, with the help of over 2,000 volunteers working out of more than 50 locations in Dakota and Scott counties.  CAC also works with the larger community on crisis prevention to minimize long term costs to our community and improve our overall quality of life.

Armful of Love  

Just as Community Action Council's network of food shelves are much more than feeding the hungry, Armful of Love does more than help provide gifts during the holidays.  One prong of CAC's mission is to help people achieve long-term self-sufficiency and Armful of Love is the beginning of that process.  CAC's family support workers spend time with each family needing help to find out how they got to this point, and how we can help them stabilize their situation and become economically successful.  Many families continue working with other CAC services and community resources to ensure that next year, they will be in a better position to provide their own holiday gifts and household necessities.  Usually people just need a little help during a crisis to get set on the right path again.

Sharing and Caring Hands 

Sharing and Caring Hands is a compassionate response to the needs of the poor. They are set up to be a safety net organization to help with whatever needs are not being met. This includes but is not limited to providing meals, clothing, showers, shelter, transportation help, rent deposits, rent help, medical assistance, dental care, furniture, school expenses, funeral assistance, and other miscellaneous needs. 
Sharing and Caring Hands provides these with dignity, while affirming God's love for all his people regardless of their circumstances

Loaves and fishes

Loaves & Fishes provides nutritious meals to the hungry of the Twin City Metro area in an atmosphere of hospitality at site locations where the need is greatest and develops joint ventures/partnerships with like-minded organizations to assist guests with additional basic needs and to becoming self-sufficient.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.
Habitat has built more than 250,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

Our Saviour's Housing 

Our Saviour's Housing began as a program of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in south Minneapolis in the winter of 1982. The basement of the church was opened to provide a warm space for people seeking shelter from harsh weather. 

Today, Our Saviour's Housing is a program of Our Saviour's Outreach Ministries and operates two forms of housing, overnight emergency shelter and transitional housing. Since 2004, Our Saviour's Housing has been a program of Our Saviour's Outreach Ministries and its programs now serve more than 750 people each year.

Saint Paul Area Synod 

Simpson Housing Services 

Simspson Housing Services longer-term goal is to ensure that people have the resources they need to move from homelessness to permanent housing. We are committed to the belief that men, women and children experiencing homelessness can be housed with a bit of time, stability, and encouragement. We know that close individual advocacy, support and education will greatly benefit them and help ensure them finding a place to call home.

Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery 

Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery is a warm, loving, and safe place where kids get to be kids while their parents take care of a family emergency. The Nursery gives parents a supportive, safe, and non-shaming environment in which to ask for help. GMCN supports families in crisis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through our free, voluntary services

Bridging, Inc.

Bridging is a non-profit operating 100,000 square feet of warehouse in Bloomington and Roseville and provides service to a 24 county area.  Bridging serves approximately 130 households a week and operates with a small paid staff of 28 employees and relies upon over 7,000 individual and group volunteers who donate over 90,000 hours annually. Bridging is environmentally friendly, recycling over 100,000 items annually. Each household receives an average of $2,000 in furniture and household goods during their visit.

Be the Change 

Be the Change is part of CharityFocus, an all volunteer run nonprofit organization that endeavors to leverage technology for inspiring greater volunteerism and providing meaningful volunteer opportunities for all who want them -- no matter what their skills, how much time they have to give, where they are located, and what their interests. In the process, CharityFocus volunteers provide much-needed assistance to nonprofit organizations worldwide and create inspiring local events that manifest the spirit of service.

World Hunger 

For the past 32 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, which: inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty in the United States and the world; further understanding, which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on hunger and poverty; facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions; and promote individual and collective commitment to solutions to the hunger and poverty that confront hundreds of millions of the people of the world.

Tanzania Seminary and University

Makumira University College (MUCO), formerly Lutheran Theological College Makumira, is the oldest campus of Tumaini University, the university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). It is located in northern Tanzania (East Africa), on the southern slopes of Mt. Meru. MUCO is one of the largest theological seminaries in Africa.  The mission of Makumira University College (MUCO) is to serve the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) and other churches which send their students for theological studies. MUCO seeks to preserve the heritage of the ELCT, contribute to the shaping of its future, and prepare it to face present and future challenges.